It has been a couple of weeks since Akademy 2008 finished. KDE's contributors are now back home, more enthusiastic than ever about our future. If you missed the talks videos are now online. This article covers what happened during the week and outlines some of the results. Read on for more.
KDE will be present at this years FrOSCon. The Free and Open Source Conference will take place this weekend on 23rd and 24th of August at the University of Applied Sciences St. Augustin.
Besides the usual booth where one can meet active members of the community, there will be a developers room where we will give talks on certain KDE related topics. On Saturday at 15:15 Sebastian Kügler will appear in the main track talking about the new concepts and techniques in KDE 4. Talks programme is below.
After a hard week's discussion and hacking the Akademy attendees took a relaxing trip along the river Dijle towards Antwerp. The KDE discussion continued of course but most of the KDE contributors took the chance to rest from hacking and enjoy the countryside of Flanders. KDE://Radio has been updated with some short video interviews which will introduce you to your friendly KDE contributors.
This year Akademy held a dedicated day for mobile and embedded talks. With Trolltech being owned by Nokia, mobile is suddenly a hot topic for KDE and several variants of Qt and KDE on mobiles were in progress at Akademy. Read on for an overview of the talks.
An important topic at Akademy 2008 is modularisation and integration. It has been the main topic of one talk, but you will find it comes up in many others. It is clearly on the minds of many developers here. Read on for more of what is discussed here.
During the Emsys-sponsored Mobile and Embedded day at Akademy 2008, Nokia distributed 100 N810 internet tablets to KDE developers, and gave around 50 more for the project to distribute to worthy sub-projects. Read on for more.
The second day of Akademy 2008 started a bit later in the morning than the previous one, yet somehow most visitors managed to look much more tired. Maybe the social event (read Nokia sponsored beer) from yesterday has something to do with that. Although tired, people visit the talks and write code, so you can expect more code, discussions and blogs today. Read on for more!
Akademy 2008, the annual KDE desktop summit, officially kicked off on Saturday, 9th August in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium, with a schedule packed full of talks, discussions, and development. Read on for the highlights of the first day of the conference.
I'm very sorry to let everyone know that Uwe Thiem, a long term contributor to KDE, passed away yesterday at 14:45 of kidney failure. Uwe was one of the longest contributors to the KDE family and was one of the original members of the core development team. He moved on to become the main KDE representative in Africa.
Akademy 2008 has published the programme of talks. Track themes include research, applications and community. There are keynotes from Frank Karlitschek of the Open Desktop sites, Sebastian Nyström of Nokia, Cliff Schmidt of KDE users Literacy Bridge.